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An Intertextuality Pair — one connection between two passages, shown as linked verse cards: the Later text and the Earlier text it quotes, alludes to or echoes. The Significance essay explains why the link matters and where it points in Christ.

Reference Type— how explicit the link is: Quotation, Allusion, or Echo
Connection Method(s)— how it carries meaning: e.g. Typology, Promise-Fulfillment, Analogy, Longitudinal Theme
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Intertextuality Pair

2 Kings 14:6 → Deuteronomy 24:16

Quotation

Later text

2 Kings 14:6BSB

Yet he did not put the sons of the murderers to death, but acted according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, where the LORD commanded: "Fathers must not be put to death for their children, and children must not be put to death for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin."

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 24:16BSB

Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.

Significance

In 2 Kings 14:6, King Amaziah executes his father's assassins but spares their children, "according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, where the LORD commanded: 'Fathers must not be put to death for their children, and children must not be put to death for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.'" This is a direct quotation of Deuteronomy 24:16 (לֹא־יוּמְתוּ אָבוֹת עַל־בָּנִים, lo' yumetu 'avot 'al banim). The narrator's explicit citation — one of the few times a Judean king is described as obeying a specific Torah text — presents Amaziah's restraint as a model of Torah-compliant justice, demonstrating the principle of individual accountability before the law. The verse's second clause—אִישׁ בְּחֶטְאוֹ יוּמָתוּ ('ish becheto yumatu, "each is to die for his own sin")—supplies the specific Hebrew wording behind the individual-culpability principle Amaziah enacts.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme — individual accountability before the law: Amaziah's explicit obedience to the written command ("each is to die for his own sin") carries Deuteronomy's principle into royal jurisprudence, the thread that runs on through Jeremiah 31:29-30 and Ezekiel 18 toward the One who, though sinless, dies for sins not His own